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Jerry DeMarco

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jdemarco@dailyvoice.com

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Born in Newark and raised in Hudson County, Jerry DeMarco is a 38-year veteran of the news industry and a renowned breaking news reporter. He has covered local, county and state police, as well as the FBI, ATF and other federal agencies.

DeMarco joined Daily Voice in 2015 after six years running Cliffview Pilot, one of the nation's few independent breaking news sites. As an independent publisher, he helped establish Local Independent Online News, a national trade organization.

Prior to launching his own site, DeMarco served as a reporter for the Bergen Record, Stamford Advocate, Rockland Journal News, News Tribune, and Trenton Times.

DeMarco has won national recognition for his investigative work, including Clarion, Heywood Broun and Deadline Club awards. He's changed public policy and managed several major projects -- including one that helped put a corrupt public official in federal prison and another that forced a sitting New Jersey attorney general from office for her participation in a Bergen County traffic stop involving her boyfriend.

DeMarco regularly lectures at a graduate course in media relations at Fairleigh Dickinson University and previously was an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

He has a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Peter's University in Jersey City.

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$116M COVID Test Scam: Federal Grand Jury In NJ Indicts Ex-NYC Health Care Company CEO From CT $116M COVID Test Scam: Federal Grand Jury In NJ Indicts Ex-NYC Health Care Company CEO From CT
$116M COVID Test Scam: Federal Grand Jury In NJ Indicts Ex-nyc Health Care Company CEO From CT The former CEO of a New York-based health care company was charged with orchestrating a coronavirus rapid-test investment scam that fleeced victims of $116 million, federal authorities said. Marc Schessel, 62, of Greenwich, CT, had his company, SCWorx Corps, make bogus public claims that it was buying and selling at least 48 million COVID test kits that it never received, an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Newark alleges. "The claims share price surged, rising by over 400 percent from approximately $2.25 per share to an intraday high of $14.88. per share," according to a relea…

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Federal Child Porn Charges Brought Against Fort Lee-Based Lawyer From Westchester Federal Child Porn Charges Brought Against Fort Lee-Based Lawyer From Westchester
Federal Child Porn Charges Brought Against Fort Lee-Based Lawyer From Westchester A lawyer who's served as general counsel for the operator of a large chain of health care facilities in New Jersey was charged federally with transporting lewd images of children taken at his Westchester County home, authorities said. Androsky Lugo, 52, already was facing local child-porn production charges brought by police in Eastchester and the Westchester County District Attorney's Office when he was charged federally, records show. Lugo, who was executive vice president and general counsel for CareOne, worked in Fort Lee, authorities said. According to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Selling…

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Paterson Detectives Nab Fleeing Teen With Gun Paterson Detectives Nab Fleeing Teen With Gun
Paterson Detectives Nab Fleeing Teen With Gun Paterson police detectives quickly chased down a 17-year-old East Orange resident who they said was carrying a handgun. Detectives Luis Roca, Joseph Aboyoun, Brian Culmone, John Traynor and Kenneth Kerwin were on a special detail focusing on reducing violent crime, quality of life offenses and weapons incidents when they spotted the teen at the corner of Union Avenue and Jasper Street over the Memorial Day weekend. Seeing them headed his way, the teen took off on foot down Jasper Street, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Gary grabbed the .45-caliber Interarms semi-automatic handg…

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Octogenarian Plows Sedan Through Cliffside Park Construction Zone Octogenarian Plows Sedan Through Cliffside Park Construction Zone
Octogenarian Plows Sedan Through Cliffside Park Construction Zone An 84-year-old motorist escaped serious injury when she drove through a Cliffside Park construction zone and her sedan hit a truck Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The woman, who lives in town, apparently was headed home when she turned her Toyota Camry left onto Anderson Avenue from eastbound Edgewater Road shortly before 1:30 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. After steering around traffic safety cones, she continued over a trench plate as police tried to wave her down, Capano said. The Toyota then struck a Joseph M. Sanzari construction truck, he said. The woman didn't …

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Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize Pound Of Coke, 'Ghost Gun,' $15,259, Bust Business Couple Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize Pound Of Coke, 'Ghost Gun,' $15,259, Bust Business Couple
Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize Pound Of Coke, 'Ghost Gun,' $15,259, Bust Business Couple A Paterson couple who sold drugs from their money-wiring business were busted by Passaic County sheriff's detectives with nearly a pound of cocaine, more than an ounce of heroin and a "ghost gun," authorities said. The detectives moved in after watching a customer buy cocaine and then hop into a cab, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Working with the county prosecutor's office, the investigators raided the now-former River Multi Services shop on River Street and a nearby apartment shared by Steven A. Mejias-Escoto, 36, and Andry Hernandez-Paulino, 29, in the city's Bunker Hill…

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'I Forgot': 9th Gun Of Year Seized, Traveler Arrested At Newark Airport Checkpoint 'I Forgot': 9th Gun Of Year Seized, Traveler Arrested At Newark Airport Checkpoint
'I Forgot': 9th Gun Of Year Seized, Traveler Arrested At Newark Airport Checkpoint An Ocean County, NJ man said he forgot he had a loaded gun in his carry-on bag after a TSA officer at Newark Airport spotted it, authorities said. They didn't say where the New Egypt man was headed when the 9mm Glock 43 pistol showed up on an X-ray monitor at a security checkpoint at the start of the Memorial Day weekend on Friday. It was the ninth firearm found by the Transportation Security Administration this year at Newark Liberty International Airport checkpoints, TSA Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said. “Responsible gun owners know where their firearm is at all times. It’s an important…

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Deer Causes Double Tractor-Trailer Crash With SUV That Closes Route 17 Deer Causes Double Tractor-Trailer Crash With SUV That Closes Route 17
Deer Causes Double Tractor-Trailer Crash With SUV That Closes Route 17 PHOTOS: A young deer running across Route 17 apparently caused a crash involving two tractor-trailers and an SUV, jamming the Tuesday morning commute for motorists returning to work after the Memorial Day weekend, authorities said. The southbound highway was closed for nearly an hour after a fawn ran across the roadway in front of Ramsey Alfa Romeo in Upper Saddle River around 7:30 a.m., Detective Capt. Edward Kane said. The drivers of a Toyota RAV-4 and the two rigs -- one of which jack-knifed -- declined medical attention, Kane said. And the deer made it across, he said. Southbound …

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Hackensack Firefighters Make Quick Work Of Late-Night Memorial Day Blaze Hackensack Firefighters Make Quick Work Of Late-Night Memorial Day Blaze
Hackensack Firefighters Make Quick Work Of Late-Night Memorial Day Blaze Hackensack firefighters quickly doused a late-night Memorial Day apartment blaze. The first arriving companies extinguished the second-floor blaze at The Summit on Prospect -- formerly known as the Quail Heights Apartments -- on Prospect Street shortly before 11 p.m. There was smoke and water damage down to the lower level, one tenant said. No injuries were reported. The official cause wasn't immediately determined, although a tenant said she thought it was electrical. No injuries were reported in the Memorial Day fire at the Quail Heights Apartments on Prospect Avenue in Hackensack.D…

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UPDATE: Victim, 33, Hospitalized, Gunman Sought In Hackensack Liquor Store Shooting UPDATE: Victim, 33, Hospitalized, Gunman Sought In Hackensack Liquor Store Shooting
Update: Victim, 33, Hospitalized, Gunman Sought In Hackensack Liquor Store Shooting UPDATE: A search continued for the gunman who shot a 33-year-old customer during what apparently was the intended robbery of a Hackensack liquor store. Dressed all in black, the gunman entered Deli Mart Liquor at 789 Main Street near Spring Valley Avenue roughly 10 minutes before its scheduled 9 p.m. closing time on Sunday, looking to rob the place, sources with direct knowledge of the incident said. Two patrons were trying to decide what to buy when the shooter got into an argument with one of them, the source said, adding that they apparently weren't moving fast enough. The gunman then o…

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Funeral Arrangements Announced For Domestic Violence Victim From Lodi, 44 Funeral Arrangements Announced For Domestic Violence Victim From Lodi, 44
Funeral Arrangements Announced For Domestic Violence Victim From Lodi, 44 The son of a Lodi woman who authorities said was stabbed to death by her abusive husband is seeking financial help for his sister and himself. Janet Cinco, 44, had suffered repeated assaults at the hands of her estranged husband, Joel Cinco, who records show repeatedly violated restraining orders in order to stalk, harass and threaten her. On Thursday, he stabbed her multiple times at her Westervelt Place home, authorities said. Civilians held down Joel Cinco, a 48-year-old Philippine national, until police arrived. His wife died in the operating room at Hackensack University Medical Cen…

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